Garment-fastener.



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-GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED 003.15. 1915.

Lmfifim. Patented. Feb. 20, 1917.

CHRISTOPHER F. BACKIVIYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2F, 1W1?" Application filed October 15, 1915. Serial N 0. 55,991.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER F. BACKMYER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Garment-Fasteners, this said invention being in part a continuation of my application for Letters Patent filed in the United States Patent Oiiice on February, 26, 1915, Serial No. 10,715; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawing, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates generally to improve ments in garment fasteners, and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction,-

as hereinafter first fully set forth and described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing to which reference has already been made, the figures or views of my device are enlarged to many times life size in order to more clearly disclose the details of construction of the preferred and modified structures constituting the invention. In these views, Figure l is a plan of a blank of thin sheet metallic material em- I ployed in the production of the eye-member of my invention. I Fig. 2 is a combined cross section of an eye member and a stud member in their completed or finished form as being introduced to each other. Fig. 3 is a like cross section of the said stud and eye members as partially connected together, and

Fig. 4 is a similar section showing the said parts in completely connected position, as hereinafter more fully set forth. Fig. 5 is a horizontalsection in plan, in line 55 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a like section in line 66 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a similar section in line 'Z-Tof Fig. 4. Fig. 8 is an axial, vertical section of the eye member, illustrating a slight modification of the structure therein, and Fig. 9 is a bottom plan thereof. Flg. 10 is a cross section of the stud member as employed in Figs. 2, 3, 4i, 5, 6 and 7, and Fig. 11 a bottom plan of the same. Fig. 12

. is a vertical cross section of the stud member employed in connection with Figs. 8. and 9,

which structure is considered a clear equivalent of Fig. 10. Fig. 13 is a bottom plan of Fig. 12.

Like parts are indicated by corresponding characters or symbols of reference in all the figures of the drawing.

The aim of this invention is the production of a fastener for the overlapping edges or seams of dresses, coats, waists and other garments in which the disadvantages of the typical hook and eyes are eliminated. Among these disadvantages may be named the liability of the hooks and eyes becoming disengaged from each other whereby the flap or seam of the garment becomes loosened and presents an unsightly appearance.

Another result aimed at in my invention resides in the details of construction whereby the difiiculty of hooking together the typical hooks and eyes is eliminated, and wherein a .pull upon the fabric to enforce engagement of the parts is avoided. And yet another agvantage aimed at in this in vention is to s construct the elements thereof that when the waist or other garment to which this fastener is attached is being ironed or passed through a wash ringer, therewill be no tendency to distort the fastener itself and destroy its usefulness, as is now the case with the usual type of hooks and eyes.

In the construction of my invention the eye member thereof, shown in fiat form in Fig. l, is produced from a thin sheet metallic blank A of essentially disk like form a, hava ing a long protruding member 13, projectingradially from the margin of said disk a, and a shorter projection 6, extending from the periphery of said disk a at a point opposite that of the projection B. Piercing the substantial center of the disk like portion a is a substantially circular opening a, from which extends a slot at, as clearly seen in Fig. 1.

Arranged concentrically about the disk at are a series of apertures a, which apertures may be circular or elongated as desired and are adapted to form openings through which thread may be passed whereby the eye member may be sewn to a piece of fabric such as that composing a womans waist or dress.

The blank A, constituted as aforesaid, is

adapted to have its disk like portion a to be pressed or stamped into the shape of a dome, with the projecting portion B bent back and under the said'dome and the shorter projection 3) also bent back and under the dome in such a manner that the free end of the portion B may rest upon the projection or lip Z) as seen, for instance, in Figs. 2 or 8.

' The material from which the blank A is prowalls thereof form upwardly inclined walls.

10 and 11v extending in opposite directions longitudinally of the member B.

The stud member of my device which may be termed E as a whole, is made from thin sheet metal in disk like form and possessed of a curled or like stifi'ening edge E and thread fastening openings E or the like. This stud member is provided with an up,- standing stud F, having an enlarged head Gr, and the outer outline of this head is made to fit the depression C in the spring member B, whether the said depression be V- shaped or arcuate as the case may be;

In connecting together the eye member and the stud member of my invention, it is simply necessary to enter the head G of the stud member through the eye a of the eye member. Upon downward pressure being applied upon the stud member one side of the stud head G thereof will engage the side 10 of the depression C in the member B. Free downward movement of the latter member B being estopped by the lip or projection b, a deflection of the said member B is caused to take place upon the application of further pressure upon the stud member B until the head G is totally lodged in the depression C, during which process the stud member itself with its head has been lat erally moved so that the stud F is in engagement with the cut out portion a of the opening a, whereby an upward retraction of the head G- is prevented, unless the same be forcibly moved to register with the opening a man evident manner.

I have her'einbefore disclosed the preferred mode of practising my invention, but I reserve the right to make such and any changes as might occur to one skilled in the art to which this invention appertains, or to make any and all such alterations as may be permitted underthe doctrine of equivalents.

Having thus fully described my invention I claim as new, and desire to secure to myself by Letters Patent of the United States 1. In a garment fastener, an eye member thereof comprising a single sheet metallic blank and a projecting tongue extending therefrom, there being a shorter tongue extending from the opposite side of said blank, both of said tongues being bent back under said blank with the said shorter tongue preventing downward movement of said first named tongue, there being an openin through said blank above said first named tongue.

2. In a garment fastener, an eye member therefor comprising a single sheet metallic blank having an opening therethrough and a tongue extending from one margin of said blank, a shorter tongue extending from the opposite margin of said blank, both of said tongues being bent back under said blank,

with said shorter tongue supporting the free end of said first named tongue, said first named tongue having a depression in the upper face thereof beneath said opening in said blank.

3. In a garment fastener an eye member therefor comprising a sing e sheet metallic blank having an opening therethrough and a tongue extending from one margin of said blank, a shorter tongue extending from the opposite margin of said blank, both of said tongues being bent back under said blank, with said shorter tongue supporting the free end of said first named tongue, said first named tongue having a depression in the upper face thereof beneath said opening in said blank.

4:. In a garment fastener, an eye member therefor comprising a single sheet metallic blank possessed of oppositely extending tongues bent back under said blank, with one of said tongues adapted to support the other of said tongues, there being an opening through said blank. 7

5. In a garment fastener, an eye member therefor comprising a single sheet metallic blank possessed of oppositely extending tongues bent back under said blank toward each other, with one of said tongues adapted to support the other of said tongues,

member having an enlarged conical head said inclined side will enforce horizontal and a reduced neck, said head being adaptmovement of said stud member and the ened for entrance through said opening and trance of said reduced neck into said slot. 10 engagement with one of the inclined sides In testimony that I claim the foregoing of said \l-shaped depression, whereby upon as my invention, I have hereunto set my the application of pressure upon said stud hand.

member, the engagement of said head with CHRISTOPHER F. BACKMYER.

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